Estelle



Patented July 26, I898.

No. Bogus.

R. ESTELLE.

MILK COOLER.

(Application filed Aug. 5, 1897.)

' (No Model.)

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RHODES ESTELLE, OF LEXINGTON, TEXAS.

MILK-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,113, dated July 261898.

Application filed gust 5 1897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RHODES ESTELLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lexington, in the county of Lee and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Coolers; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in milk-coolers; and the object isto provide a simple, effective, inexpensive, and practical device forthis purpose.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of the several parts of the device, as will be hereinaftermore fully described, and particu larly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate thesame parts of the invention.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved milk-cooler. Fig. 2 is avertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail of the upperportion of the water-pail, the textile envelop, the annular ring, andthe supporting-hooks. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the butter-receptacle.i

1 represents an upright provided with a horizontal cross-arm 2, fromwhich depends a suspension-hook 3.

4 represents a water pail or bucket suspended by its bail 5 from thehook 3, and the eyes 6 6 of said bail 5 are rather larger than usual toreceive the hooks 7 7 of the parallel rods 8 8, the lower ends of whichare formed with hooks 9 9, which extend below the bottom of the pail 4.

10 10 represent corresponding rods, having their upper hooked ends 11 11detachably secured to the lower hooked ends of the rods 8 8.

12 represents a horizontal cross -bar provided with a central hook 13,and orifices 14 14 are formed in its outer ends to engage the hooks 9 9on-the rods 8 8.

15 represents a milkpail provided with a removable cover 16 and a bail17, by means of which it is suspended from the hook 13 on the bar 12. Asecond milk-pail 15 is sus- Serial No. 647,226, (No model.)

pended from. a corresponding bar 12, connecting the lower hooked ends ofthe rods 10 10, and this arrangement may be continued,

form to encompass the water-bucket 4 and the milk-pails 15 15', and itsupper end is' provided with an annular textile band 22, forming acircumferential pocket cowith the sleeve to receive an annular ring 19,having hooks 2O 20,Which project over the rim of the bucket, while theupper portion 21 of the sleeve is turned inward and downward into thebucket, so as to come in contact with the water,

By the Wellknown principle of capillary attraction the water is diffusedover the sleeve, the wet or moist sleeve being in contact with themilk-pails, and as the evaporation of the diffused water takes place onthe sleeve the heat incidental to the process is abstracted from themilk, thus considerably reducing its temperature. 3

Other articles than milk may be placed in the pails 15 15, and in thecase of butter and other solids the said pails maybe perforated tofacilitate the cooling process.

It will be observed that the entire weight of the Web textile envelop isborne by the ring 19 and the hooks 20,so that the upper portion 21 ofthe envelop,where it turns over the bucket rim, is loose to permit free'capillary action, which would not'be the case if the weight came on theturned-over portion 21, which would thus be drawn tight over thebucket-rim, and thus act as abarrier to the capillary action. i

Although I have specifically described. the construction and relativearrangement of the [Several elements of my invention, I do not desire tobe confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made asclearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from thespirit thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters latent, is l I The combination with the Water-pail 1 and themilk-pails 15 15', of the textile envelop 18,

the annular ring 19 fixed to said envelop and In testimony whereof Ihereunto affix my the suspension-hooks 20 fixed to said ring andsignature in presence of two Witnesses. adapted to engage the rim of theWater-pail, RHODES ESTELLE whereby the Weight of said envelop will be 5borne by said ring, so that its upper portion Witnesses:

21 will hang loosely Within said Water pail, G. P. DICKsON,substantially as shown and described. T. B. CARTER.

